Many thanks Lorraine for your compliments! The presentation went quite well. All the best!

Thank you for your comments, Karter. While it is true that most countries spend on culture, not every country sees it as part of their economic or development strategy. In addition, pop culture in particular is not often seen as ‘culture’ in the way that heritage sectors, such as national monuments, folk art et cetera.

All governments do invest in cultural industry. However, the policy towards pop culture industry varies from one to another. How about Indian government’s attitude towards Bollywood and Beijing’s idea of management of cultural industry. It is different in policy making. The K-pop is one the most typical examples that could represent how public policy making has worked on pop industry at least in a positive way. While its neighbour India or China may be not the same.